Staff Forward Deployed Engineer Job Somerville area,Massachusetts USA,Software Development

Form Energy is scaling on every axis at once — research, first-of-a-kind manufacturing, field deployment, and the business that runs behind them — and everywhere it scales, the same pattern repeats: brilliant people held back by fragile spreadsheets, manual handoffs, and software that doesn’t exist yet
As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, you are the person we send at those problems
You will embed directly with the teams that do Form Energy’s hardest work — scientists, engineers, operators, and business leaders — find the highest-leverage problems in their world, and build the software and AI that solves them
One quarter that might be a governed system of record replacing a load-bearing spreadsheet; the next, an AI agent that removes a week of manual toil; the next, a full-stack application that becomes the way a team works
You will not wait for perfect requirements or hand off to someone else to build
You go where the leverage is, ship, and stay with what you built as it matters more
This is a hands-on, senior individual-contributor role for someone who wants their work measured in problems solved, not tickets closed
Embed with the teams you serve — across R&D, manufacturing, field and commercial operations, and the functions that support them — to understand their hardest problems firsthand, then design and build the software that solves them
Hunt for leverage and act on it. Diagnose where a team is bottlenecked by missing software, manual process, or brittle tooling; make the call on what’s worth building; and deliver it. Exercising judgment about what to build is as much of this job as building it well
Spearhead the adoption of AI-driven automation in the functions you’re embedded with — prototype and ship AI-enabled tools and agents, and drive real adoption with the people who will use them, all within the guardrails set by Form Energy’s independent AI-governance function
Own applications end to end: full-stack web applications (e.g., React / Next.js / Type Script front ends, Python / FastAPI back ends, PostgreSQL) that become governed systems of record and decision-support tools — from data model through UI to production deployment and the users who depend on them
Turn expert knowledge into durable software — take the spreadsheets, notebooks, and tribal knowledge that a team runs on and turn them into correct, maintainable, owner-attributed systems that the organization can trust and build on
Build governed, traceable data models: versioned, append-only revision history with role-based access, so the assumptions and records that drive decisions are defensible and reconstructable
Integrate with Form Energy’s enterprise systems — the Snowflake data platform (read-only reference data), enterprise applications (Oracle, Arena, Jama, and others), and shop-floor / operational systems — respecting each system’s authoritative boundary and never writing into systems you don’t own
Ship to production reliably: containerized services, CI/CD, and deployment on Form Energy’s internal Kubernetes platform, with the observability, testing, and documentation needed to operate what you build
Use AI aggressively as a force multiplier in how you build — AI-assisted and agentic development — to deliver more, faster, and at higher quality than a conventional engineering approach would allow
Work in a fast, prototype-to-product style: get a working thing in front of users quickly, iterate beside them, and harden it into software the team can rely on — without accumulating unmanageable debt

Benefits

100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for employees
Health insurance coverage begins first day of employment
Health Savings Account
Generous PTO policies to enable employees to recharge when needed
An Employee Resource Program that provides mental health counseling services, legal guidance, financial resources, and other helpful consulting services
80% of the total medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for dependents
12 weeks of paid parental leave, 14 weeks for the birthing parent
Access to a Dependent Care Account
Access to a Health Flexible Spending Account
Access to a Commuter Benefits Account
Access to an Adoption…